I am using iReport version 5.6.
Right now we're analyzing the requirement for a new project where the requirement is as follows.
We have a report which is designed in jrxml with almost 20 fields where user has to scroll to the right to get all values and hence tedious for the user when result size is too large.
Suggested requirement is as to configure the jrxml in such a way that user can select the column name for which the report should be generated.
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We have done study on this and found the only possible solution may be to create a jrxml for each possible combination which seems to be not efficient for our project.
Could you please suggest is there any possible way to handle this situation?
Instead of using a seperate .jrxml file for each "view" you could duplicate the bands and use printWhen expressions to determine which band to display. Not a lot better than having separate .jrxml files but at least all the logic will be in the same file.
Another idea is to use parameters like showColA,showColB etc. Use those parameters to determine the column headers and values of those columns (this could get a little messy though)
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Good day to all. I am currently building a program that covers the review of product warranty applications. I'm doing it in javaFX using Netbeans. The program has the following scenes:
a screen where the information of each guarantee request is entered. all the information is stored in a table in a database. The interaction between the program and the database is done, in effect, through JDBC.
a screen where you can see a table that shows all the requests that have been saved. if a row is selected, a button that carries the third scene all the data of the request that was selected is enabled.
a screen where all the data of the tests that are made to the selected guarantee application are entered. The results are also stored in another table in the database.
After the application is evaluated, a warranty review report must be generated. Currently this format is generated in pdf from excel. What I want to do is that from the data results of the tests stored in the database I can dynamically generate the pdf formats from the program in javaFX. Is there a plugin to write these documents automatically? I'm good at writing texts in LaTEX, so if there is a way to generate the latex format from the program and call the necessary information from the database, it would be perfect. Thanks in advance for the help. Any indication or idea is welcome.
It seems like you have two core requirements:
Fetch data from the database suitable for reporting
Generate the report(s) in PDF from JavaFX but can fall back to LaTEX
What you really need seems like a PDF library for Java. I can suggest iText and Docmosis as good options (please note I work for Docmosis) - both are commercial for commercial products so you would have to buy.
Assuming you are using one of these libraries, the process for each report is:
execute the query to fetch the appropriate data for the report
manipulate the data if required to make the reporting stage simple
generate the report
Using iText you would write the query, the manipulation code and then the code to layout the report including the data.
Using Docmosis you would write the query, possibly some manipulation code (Docmosis can also work directly with your ResultSet) and the code to execute the report. The layout is designed in the template (Word or Libre Office Writer).
When you mention writing "these documents automatically" I assume you mean creating the PDF file format, which iText and Docmosis can do. If you mean creating the report layout itself, then you always need to design/write something to make the report do what you require.
I hope that helps.
Thank you very much for your response Paul! I had found something related to the libraries you mentioned, and indeed something like what I'm looking for. I notice that you are more in the subject. then, you do not know bookstore, preferably free, that gives me the possibility of doing the following (pseudo code):
take the row from the database
Save the information of that row in the attributes of a created class.
create text1: "the guarantee with reference" + object.attribute1 + "was not approved in view of the physical revision test indicated that" + object.attribute2 + "
create text2: "..."
...
create the text n: "..."
take text 1 and place it in the header of the pdf document
Take text 2, put it in bold and place it in the subtitle
Generate a table and fill it with the content of text 3, 4 ...
compile all information as a pdf, (word file, xls or others if possible)
I am clear that with the libraries that you recommend you can easily make items from
1 to 8, but I do not know if it is possible to enter the texts within a template created, so that the library accommodates all the texts in the respective zones of the template file. I imagine that this can easily be done with Latex, since everything is written in plain text.
I found a library called Java LaTeX Report (JLR) that allows me to do what I want. This information may be useful to someone. Thank you again for your answer Paul, if you consider the libraries that you mention do the job more easily than JLR please let me know!
I am using jasper Reoprt Ireport 3.0 for Generating excel. my problem is I have One text field in that i want to keep below data which is coming from my database.
**Disclaimer: Please note that in case of disease conditions which can have both Acute and Chronic manifestations, they are considered as Chronic illness for analysis keeping in view the objective of the report.
Actually in jasper reoprt summary area i have given one text field but it is too small too keep this above line data. but still I want to keep whole data in small field in excel .
because normaly when we are typing in excel cell anything and when it become overflows then also it's looking like it has been typed in next cell but ,when we are clicking in another cell it will show in that cell only.whole data will come in that small cell without wrapping text filed.
just like it i want also through I-report 3.0 . I tried so much but I didn't find solution so i am posting here . please suggest if you faced same problem and got solution too. it will be helpful.
I don't want to merge it in multiple columns because if it will merge multiple columns then for calculating value through Excel column selection will be a problem. and V lookup we cant do so.
if the data in any cell is greater than 2 rows, then the remaining data just gets cut off and not displayed.
Maybe it is time to update. At this time JasperReports 6.x is the version to go, but ...
From my expierience JasperReports is the wrong tool to generate "clean" Excel documents. You get always layout informations in it that result in the behaviour you describe.
To get a clean Excel document I would suggest to go with Apache-Poi (https://poi.apache.org/) and generate it directly or simply to generate a CSV - file which can be easily opened using Excel.
i need to create a static report of 3 pages and every page contains static text and fields retrieved with a database query.
My first approach, after reading similar questions, was to create 3 separated report files (page1.jrxml, page2.jrxml and page3.jrxml) and then merge the resulting reports into a single one.
It works fine but sometimes happens that a field contains a very long string and a single file report generetes 2 pages, leading to an horrible printing because the first page is full but
the second contains one or few lines.
Can you suggest me a better approach?
Thanks
We use jrxml templates and we have only one jrxml. You do not need to have multiple files just split the static text to many DETAILS (paragraphs) and if the first page will overlap with few lines it will be inmediatelly followed by next detail.
In our app we use jasper from java and we pass the params with JasperFillManager.
We create template:
compiledTemplate = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(...);
and then we fill the variables
jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(compiledTemplate, map with params, dto implementing JRDataSource);
and then we export it to pdf:
ret = JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdf(jasperPrint);
and thats it.
I've needed to split a report over several sheets primarily for Excel-export. It seems to be working while previewing on JasperServer also:
add report property net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.one.page.per.sheet set to true
add property net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.break.after.row set to true the the textfield you need a page break after (there's a similar one to break before)
Also you may name your sheets. Please see here:
http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/config.reference.html#net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.one.page.per.sheet
I have a problem to choose which PDF API can i use to generate a pdf with dynamic fields...
I've used jasper report some time ago but the requirements has changed and now i have dynamic fields...
It means that in one report i can have "Name, Phone, Address" and in another i can have "Name, Address, Age, Phone, Birthday"... I've no how to know which fields im gonna have in the report until the use choose the fields to be impressed...
If i try using jasper report and the use dont choose some field im gonna have a big space with blank content...
I were thinking if is there some how to make a loop into jasper...
I mean, i get a list of object and into those objects im gonna have another list...
SOmeone understood my problem or have some idea about how can i solve it?
You can populate a Velocity template that contains an FO representation of your PDF, populate the dynamic variables, and then turn it into a PDF using an FO Transformer. No Jasper required.
You can look at generating the PDF documents using IText:
http://itextpdf.com/
It's a relatively easy to use API, but will be programming heavy compared to something like Jasper.
I am trying to create a GUI tool to edit few property files, each property file contains large amount of lines. What's the best swing controls in Java should I use in order to load these property files.
Thanks,
You could present an editable JTable with two columns, one for property key, one for property value
http://zaval.org/products/jrc-editor/index.html
Take a look at this. It shows all keys in a tree like structure and let you edit them. Supports multiple locale dependent files and represent them accordingly.